Former NFL linebacker LaVar Arrington has spent enough time around the NFL to know that aside from a few players, everyone is expendable. So when Arrington saw Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff discussing how he felt “misled” by his former team, the Los Angeles Rams, in the new season of Quarterback on Netflix, Arrington made sure to call out Goff for what he believes to be a bit of entitlement.
In the second season of Quarterback, which premiered on July 8, Goff opened up about his feelings upon being traded to the Lions in 2021, explaining how he instantly felt wanted in his first conversations with head coach Dan Campbell and GM Brad Holmes, a feeling he hadn’t felt “for quite some time” prior to the move with the Rams.
“It kind of brought me from this moment of picking up the pieces to reinvigorated with this energy. Like, ‘Oh, this is what it’s like to feels like to truly feel wanted and to have these guys behind you.’ And I hadn’t felt that in quite some time.”
“This is what it feels like to truly be wanted and to have these guys behind you.”
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On Friday, Goff’s comments were discussed on Friday’s edition of Two Pros and a Cup of Joe on Fox Sports Radio, hosted by Jonas Knox and LaVar Arrington. And Arrington, in particular, didn’t exactly feel much sympathy for Goff, explaining that these kinds of moves are made every day around the NFL and receive far less attention.
“Quarterbacks must have an alternate reality to other players,” said Arrington. “It’s interesting, we were just talking about Kirk Cousins and how he was misled. They all just sound like some soft mother F-ers, man. Listen, I can understand what Jared Goff was saying here. But again, this is business. You can throw out there that there should be a level of maturity and different things like that. It must be a different level of communication and entitlement for quarterbacks.
“It seems like every time I hear a conversation from them, it represents something that you would expect if you had the courtesy of the back and forth. ‘It felt like I wasn’t wanted.’ They didn’t want you, that’s why they traded you. If they wanted you, you wouldn’t be traded. So, you felt like you were blindsided by it.That happens to players every single day. And It’s not on an interview. It’s not on a Netflix special. It’s not on Fox Sports or ESPN. You just see it, it’s there. Transactions they are called. Look up NFL transactions online. Those are people, that’s not currency or anything like that. That’s actually real, living people that have family and wives. They are people. This is generally only a conversation when quarterbacks are involved.”
In a sense, Arrington does have a point. We see organizations move on from players at other positions all the time. And most of the time, those players understand that it is simply a part of the job as an NFL player to be moved by an organization.
However, starting quarterbacks in the NFL are essentially seen as the face of whatever franchise they are on. And with that comes the expectation from these quarterbacks that they have the full support of the organization.
Whether that expectation from quarterbacks is fair or unfair is up for interpretation. But when you consider the kind of contract the Rams gave Goff to be the face of the franchise, a four-year $134 million deal back in 2019, it’s fair for Goff to have not seen the trade coming.
Regardless of whether you feel Goff’s apparent resentment toward the Rams is fair or not, Goff has clearly moved on to a far better situation with the Lions, making it to the postseason in each of the last two seasons. Meanwhile, the Rams got a Super Bowl championship out of the trade by bringing in Matthew Stafford. So ultimately, the trade seems to have worked out for both sides.